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JOHN JOHNSON, ESQ., 

(Ex-Mayer of Kansas City.) 

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AN ADDEE3S DELIVERED BEFORE THE KANSAS CITY REPUBLICAN CLUB, 
On the 15th day of September 1860. 



PUBLISHED AT THEIR REQUEST 



The assertion is made, again and again, by all It is the noblest privilege and duty of an 
the political parties, through their newspapers American citizen to give a reason for the belief 
and speakers that the Republican party is he may have, and the opinions he maintains, au 

Destructive in it, principles, altmfcHe times and occasions. 

tC • •<. a -J, „«.^ It is equally the privilege and duty or ai 

Dangerous in iite« tendencies and American public wJ, positive assertions and 

•Subversive of the Institutions and Union grave cnar | es are made against a party, c 
of these Stales. toting a barge portion of that public, to uear/ana 

i'he writer? and speakers, opponents of judge of the right, and to render.a verdict, ev y 
this party, do not always state these views .nan for and to himself, as to what is true and 
in this exact language; but, from the va- false, and promotive or subversive of the pnnci- 
rious statements made, these three dis- pies of our free government, 
tinct assertions, forming onegeneral proposition, The language and mode of our opponents in 
can easily be deduced ; and, indeed, the public, th s general, affords a strong temptation to reso; t 
ha/ h 'fnso long accuetomed to this kind of as- to mere assertion and gross vituperation, 
sertions, that no one will wish or care to deny --\ sry Republican avoid these upon all occasions, 
that this is but a fair statement of the general let it be our endeavor to show that the Rcpubli- 
and leading ideas promulgated. can pa rty is what it professes to be, a party whose 

By one portion ol the opponents of the Repub- weapons are reason and argument, publication 
licap party another assertion is added, that, ad- and discussion and the legal use of the ballot 
mitting and believing the pbove assertions to be box; that its comp men! elements are men of all 
true, it then follows that this party is to be re- former parties, drawn together, not by the ''eo- 
8 g'ted hesive power of public plunder," but by th 

First, To prevent by all mean/, legal if of i truth and knowledge and the desire that their 
possible, its gaining the national election; fellow citisehs should be equally well informed; 

Second, Should the national election be gained that its aims and intentions are peace and good 
^>y this party, the resisting of that party coming will toward all men, and the prosperity oi all 
into power, by the severance of as many Suites parts of our country, south, north, east and west, 
as possible from this confederacy as can be in- united and indivisible. _ 

duced to set up a Separate confederacy, and the So far as an individual and moor 
introduct.on of civil war among the people oi member of the Republican party undersl 
this Union, if needed to sustain thai confederacy, how that party has, arisen and what are Lts teaeh- 

These kind of broad assertions are made so of- ings and purposes, I take the negative of; the 
ten, and the loud mouthed calumnious tongue, proposition affirmed by our opponents and deny 
is so frequently used by men of all parties oppo- that this party is either destructive, dangerous, 
sed to the Republican,- to abuse thai party, and or subversive. , . 

calumny, : ivective, and vituperation take so In replying to these ar ertion . a pu lc ad 
much the rtaceof truth and argument, that the dress of this nature will only admit of aglanci 




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w&ere prejudice or scorn has hitherto reigned, man i. e. a pariicul: exam nation, calmly ana 

that we knew not what manner of party this impartially of the qi ns at issue and 

was in its opinions or intentions, thus the very duct and tendencies of parties and rnea3U 

excess of zeal and abuse of its opponents causes very great and desirable object will ha\ 



enquiry. 



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It may be asked, then why not let this matter What is it, we a»T? t i s party proposes , 
take its" coarse? why trouble yourselves about Does it propose to destroy that great magna t jor- 
what will not and cannot be of personal gain or to of individual liberty, of your liberty and mine, 
p ro fit? 'die right of a. trial by jury of his peers, (equals) 



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property of the planter, away from either of The difference between Republicans and many 
theS'} classes of owners by legal or illegal means, of the members of other parties seems to be 
Bus by encouraging a spirit of enquiry and frater- this — that whilst an admission will be made by 
nit /as among the sons of a roramon country, to men of other parties in one locality, in another 
let the people of the several and individual states the same thing will be denied or omitted; of this 
decide whether such a state as we may instance there is a remarkable instance in the original 
Missouri shall beeamelike Few York or Bennsyl-? oration of Edward Everett upon the character 
van a aniongthe first and foremost of states in of Washington, in which the sentiment concern- 
white population and wealth, ©r under the ener- ing slaves is brought forward by Edw. Everett 
vatiug influences ofluxurious slavery shall dwin- in high commendation as humane, benevolent, 
die into a state of third or fourth rate importance. &c. Mr. Everett having to deliver thi3 address 
It is not for a National Republican administra- in various parts of the country was informed 
lion to say what Missouri or any other state that in Virginia no such sentiments would be 
shall be or do, but such an administration tolerated there, and that if it was his wish to 
will by its public officers and genera! con- deliver his oration there, thisofFensivciy humane 
du jfcof affairs give its influence to the side of prep/- and benevolent view of the character of Wash- 
er! v. >n! progress in this as in all other respects, ington must be expunged. Mr, Everett ac- 

U satonqe the spirit and intent of the Re- eordingly omitted the passage, that is the mild 
pibli >a;i party in its principles to fosUr industry, term used by his friends. 

lo encourage the development of the resources Now there is no well informed Republican 
of our country, to protect all descriptions of prop- that wishes to intrude his sentiments upon any 
erty, t i enact and enforce good laws, to regard one, or to bring them forward except at times 
the well being of man as of higher repute than and places suited to the subject, but he is ever 
mere questions of property, in the abstract. Thus ready and willing to give a reason for his belief, 
are thecharges of destructive principles fully met. he does not wish to give offence or to cause neg- 

itiaas.ened that this party is dangerous in lect of business by so doing ; but the great dif- 
its tendencies. ference between Republican belief and practice, 

This is anothes wholesale charge by our oppo- and that of the other parties, is — that if the N. 

- without specific detail from which to frame W. Territory prospered so well under the l"w of 

the answer Congress made for it, then other Territories will 

A party may be dangerous in theory, prosper under a like law — that if it was humane 

h\ the opinions held by its members. and benevolent in Washington to propose the lib- 

Ur in the teachings of its writers and speakers, oration and removal of his slaves, by providing 
A party may tie dangerous in practice, for them in some country where they will have 

In- its present course, their own rights and privileges without being 

1 )r Lo its prospective action. subject to the odium of color and cast as here ; 

It is neither just nor proper to form the idea of then the like maybe humane and benevolent 
tin' opinions held by any man or set of men from now — and the head and front of Republican of- 
the views of others, particularly of an opponent fending is this, that having once believed and 
or enemy, but this is what is done to a great es- promulgated such ideas, they will not — for 
tent in localities where freedom of discussion is power, for popularity, for money, for convenience 
denied to Republicans. tor social ease or position, for favor or fear, or to 

The opinions held by Republicans and the pander to local or sectional prejudice, do as Ed- 
doctrines and the teachings of the party having v.-ard Everett did, expunge or omit a solemn be- 
to a great extent , be< u brought forward in a for- lief or declaration — or as Mr. Fillmore, be se- 
nior part of this defence, it is but necessary again duced by the blandishments of power in present 
to repeat that the entire opinions, doctrines and possession or future prospect, to renounce or 
teachings of the Republicans and their party is forego, at a mature and ripened age, the convio- 
justso much and no more than was held by the tions and declarations of a life time of establish- 
founders of the Republic and which was carried ed character, or as Mr. Douglas, even, after be- 
out by th i-e founders in the N\ W. Territory. and ing given and taking the lead in the repeal of a 
which action has produced live of the noblest measure sanctioned by character and time, and 
Sta : c.,o:' our Confederacy and which States are after pledging himself to go with and sustain 
settled with industrious free white population, his pro-slavery friends throughout the entire and 
'rowing in all the elements of wealth and arduous political struggle, then more fully en- 
powur under the auspices of th.' Congressional tercel upon-, at the lir:?t appearance of danger to 
laws, which among other things declared that himself in the loss of his seat in the Senate* 
there should he no involuntary servitude except seize upon, an insufficient and unsatisfactory 
for crime. juggle in place of a straight, plain and thorough 

We may state and reiterate (hat, the Republi- plan agreed upon by himself and his friends, 
can party in its present action contemplates no (see Mr. Benjamin's speech in the United States 
more than the bringing these subjects before the .Senate.) Republicans can do none of these 
public mind ; that whilst bhi : agitation has been things, their banner is flung to the breeze, upon 
forced upon the public .by the action of designer* it is inscribed: American Liberties — Freedom 
and demagogues oi other parties, neither the of Thought — Freedom of Speech and Publication 
party nor individuals will shrink from discussing — Free Homesteads of the Public Lands for the 
and declaring the principles involved at suitable Poor White Family — The G >od of our Common 
tiinesaiiu places. Their belief is that the foun- Country-llespect for Individual and State Rights. 
ders of the Republic were right and that right Republicans are ready to be informed, of 
exists now as then. wrong to be set rigid; convince us by rer.-onand 

en Geo go Washington, argument net by calumny and abuse. Wecannot 

thefai h&lament- changeouri rse upon mere public or personal 

■ ! to free expediency, we will not conceal our opinions, 

remove his I: e . hi - op •< a trail of we will not adopt a politic course of saying one 

■ i mil lEiinniii , mill tilin TTn thing in Illinois, anoiher in Missouri. 

publicans think that -,.■ » as e i cm If . by announcing one faith, and showing one 

<> defended upon t'i* ground of face, we are silenced by the despotism of preju- 

expediencv and policy, not of right and human- dice or power, be it so. If unjust and persecut- 

ity, leaving others to think as they please, ing laws to prevent free speech are passed against 



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as be it so. If we are assailed by armed power of public opinion will bring about, assisted by lo- 
or Violence, so were the fathers and founders of cal laws in the places where slavery exists, 
our country, your ancestors and ours; and so The public mind in the slave States has got to 
have been the friends of truth and freedom in be informed, and information is not gamed by a 
all ages A man that will be led into a thing nation in a day or a year. The real truth is that 
or driven into a thing contrary to his inclinations the Republican party is the only party at present 
or judgment is no better than a fool, and a par- before the American public, that proposes any 
tv thatVears or hesitates to avow its opinions or c mserv itive measures tor a great evil For m- 
principles or pursues an uncertain, pandering, stance this : a Douglas man in the Charleston 
vascillatinn- course, is not to be trusted, hi what Convention declared himself to be an importer 
is the Republican party dangerous? The reply of and in favor of the importation of negroes 
made is: oh well the party will create civil war, from Africa, and the declaration was received 
insurrection or something or other that's awful, with applause. It only requires that the effect 

rv r*.v„j- ,f f„ A^y.-.^r.f ti,»Bo™iWinan of negroes from Africa should be glanced at to be 
Oneoi the direct tendencies ot tue Kepuinican o . i.** a< 

vueoi me uii co*.«5iiv „.L, W fb* understood. If negroes can be brought from Af- 

oartv. we admit, is to break up or uestrov urn ""«■*"» o o. .-.„. ,,^ 

r;- 11 i I ™- „m„ „„,. ' r.t „, whi^h \a rica at cheap rates, the consequence is, that the 

dastardly and abominable spy system, which s Am ^ lcan negroe8 will fall-thus so much 

the natural offspring f^T^J?^.^. 10 ^" of a destruction of value takes place in some- 
otten exercised in a Way that an intelligent, fiee haml «_ the subject of cheap negroe s has 

American public ought not to tolerate. beel { aIrea dv touched upon, but let us look at the 

It is notorious that in many localities such is sub j ect a uttle more closely, as having a good 
the nature of this spy system that any man going d ea i fc G do with the position of parties and the in- 
into those localities upon business or traveling ter ests of t i ie wao le country. If negroes are 
for information or amusement, is subject to the p i enty f u i enough to do a very large amount of 
prying annoyances of any and every fellow that the common an( j tns mechanical labor of the 
may set himself up as a public or private cen- couutry> an dcan be bought for low prices by in- 
sor, and these fellows are otten the lowest of the tro d uc iii<r them from Africa, which it is eon- 
c immunity, It was but recently that a lady of te nded £m be the result of such importation- 
wealth and refinement, with her daughter, had say n&orroes are re duced to one half or one fourth 
gone to a retired district in S. Carolina for the f thefr present value, an able bodied negro, now 
benefit of their health. These ladies without worth $1500, will be worth say $500. the interest 
any other cause whatever, except that their name upon $1200 at ten per cent. isfl&O per year, this 
corresponded with the names 01 some parties A about §12 ^ month for the hire of a 

obnoxious to slave owners in their vicinity, and wu j te man to do the labor performed bv the negro, 
that they were from a non-slaveholdmg State, Wt fa consequence f the master, having to run 
were notified to leave and spies placed upon all the risk of the loss of uhe whole capital and the 
their movements until a gentleman, a relative difficulty of replacing him, and to clothe the 
could arrive to return with them home. negr0; to take care of bim aiul pay his doctor's 

And is it not a notorious fact that such is the bill and lose his entire time when sick, thid ad- 
inherent nature of slavery that you must either ditional risk would bring the labor performed by 
praise it or condemn it in some form or other or the white man in his place at nearer $20 per 
be supposed to be greatly in its favor ; if you do month. At $500 the reduced price, the wages of a 
not you are denounced as an Abolitionist, and a white man in his place would be but $6 a month, 
spy if not in actual person yet in point of fact is and the greater ease of replacing the negro, 
placed upon the contumacious, and awfully of- would make the poor man's labor in still less de- 
fending man or woman, that dares even to doubt mand than before. If the labor performed by 
the holiness and divine right of slavery. Such the negro be of a nature requiring more skill, it 
is the liberty and freedom of American citizens would of course demand higher wages in his 
as seen through the green spectacles of slavery, place. The claim has been made by the cotton 
Republicans simply prefer to look through spec- growing States, for cheap negroes, the cry has 
tacle3 which do not distort or discolor the object been echoed from other States, and the alluring 
looked at. And they believe in the right of a though false hope, that if negroes were only very 
man judging for himself without having a spy cheap, every poor man could have a negro or 
or censor* to give him the cue. A spy system of two of his own to work for him, is held out as an 
any kind always engenders suspicion. There inducement to favor the re-opening of the slave 
ought to be nothing in the general body politic trade from Africa. It is certain that the men 
of a State or of the nation, to need suspicion or a controlling the two branches of the Democratic 
spy. party favor the re-opening. It is certain that 

This state of things induces false issues, false the Bell party says nothing about it, but it is al- 
charges and false claims just such as now exist so certain that should that, party come into 
in some parts of Texas, This brings us to con- power, the inference will be drawn, and that 
sider the assei lion so often made, that the Repub- justly, that any project meeting with favor from 
lican party will, if in power, subvert the institu- leading southern men will prevail, 
tlons and Union of these States. The Republican party is alone explicit on the- 

Our opponents of all parties, it must be borne matter of the African slave trade. It declares 
in mind, deal largely in assertions in the gross, that in or out of power, all it can do, shall be 
A great part of the reply to this assertion has done, to enforce the existing laws against the. in- 
been already made, and it is only necessary to traduction of slaves from Africa. There are 
advert to the fact, that no Republican Congress- very good reasons why negroes should not be 
man, or speaker, or leader, or individual of re- brought from Africa, and which ought to be 
pute, has ever casta vote, or written or uttered a examined by every candid and thinking mind, 
line or word, which, by any me' hod of fair de- and by every lover of his country. It is urged 
duction, can be construed into a desire <>r intent by those who favor their introduction that there 
to subvert any of the institutions of any part of is not a sufficient supply of hands for the cotton 
the country, or even to produce any immediate region, and that cotton cannot be grown at a price 
or radical change in slavery itself, (which i< low enough to suit the market at the present 
the bone of contention.) The only change which price of negroes; the negroes being held to be a 
is thought of, is by the gradual and slow process necessity in the production of cotton. It is also 
that time and circumstances and the adaptation urged by them, that if the price of negroes was 



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very low, that a. negro or two would be in the negroes from Africa. Besides do but fill your 
reach of every poor man and thus a greater in- States with African negroes, who are ignorant 
terest would be created in the protection and en- wild ami barbarous, they will have, in such vast 
oouragement of slave property. bodies, the effect of introducing in and around 

As to the sufficient supply of negroes and their your houses and plantations their own savage 
necessity, it is not unlikely that there is now a vices and manners ior your children to learn and 
sufficient supply of hands for all the cotton grow up amongst,you destroy that enlightemeifl 
planted until the picking comes on. I admit, and Christianity of which so large a b^rtst is 
from personal knowledge, that the growing of made. By cheapening negroes at so great a rate, 
cotton requires incessant attention from the time you deaden the feelings of humanity towards 
of planting until it is ginned and baled and sent them for who values or takes care of that so high- 
to market; but like other products of the earth ly, which cost him little, as that which cost him 
the most pushing time is in the gathering or much. If you say, that bringing them here, 
picking, and unlike many other products of the will civilize and christianize them," and through 
earth, the harvest or picking is perhaps the least them the entire continent of Africa is to be civil- 
laborious of the whole operation. I have known iled, I will admit that you are wonderful philan- 
white women and children (Southerners at that) thropists. The argument about cheap negroes 
picking cotton in the field; this occured in Mis- and cotton and getting the worth of your money, 
sissippi, and may have occured elsewhere ; so being thus given up, I will assume, that Repub- 
that negroes are not such an absolute necessity licans have this faith, and a strong one it is, that 
as to need to bring them from Africa. Again, the Almighty can do his own work of this kind, 
of this claim set up, that cotton cannot be raised and they know nothing in reason or in any corn- 
cheap enough at the present prices of negroes : maud, for pursuing such a line of policy : and 
what becomes of that boast, so of en heard, that there are not a few Republicans who regard such 
those very men have the best cotton lands in the an argument as that of Christianity in this way 
world, and that India or any other part of the as little else than downright blasphemy, and a 
earth cannot compete with them. Whatdothey villainous slander upon the attributes and char- 
want to put down the price of cotton for, when acter of the Almighty Creator of the Universe, 
they declare that "Cotton is King" of the mar- This kind of argument, (if argument it be) 
ket and everything else. Do they want to put of Civilization and Christianity, is often used by 
down the price of negroes and cotton, so that men, who are horrified at any reference to a 
<?otton shall only be Queen, or is it they are rest- "higher law" of reason and justice and divine 
Jess and hot blooded, and only want to be mak- authority, and who in their great zeal for civiliz- 
ing a stir in the nation. It is hard to tell some- ing and christianizing negroesand bringing them 
tymes what is the matter with these gentl>men. into competition with the paid white laborer, are 
But supposing, that cotton should not be raised ready enough to stigmatise the laborer and 
in such immense and cheap quantities, and in- mechanic as "greasy" and "mudsills of seekrty." 
stead, the white working man tills the land and These negro philanthropists and their toadies, 
lives by his labor and gets himself a home in it, are ever ready to ridicule and thwart the efforts 
in comfort and independence, sending his of laborers and mechanics to obtain a just corn- 
children to the school and the church close at pensation for labor, and to compare them to the 
hand, having his solace, and his rational amuse- field negro and society in his neighborhood, to as- 
ments" doing his duty nobly and fearlessly as a sert that on the plantation the negro has no 
citizen and partner in this great realm ; will not anxiety, no fear of los3 of wages for himself or 
that be just as pleasant a sight, as righteous a bread for his family, that he is provided for and 
thing, and add infinitely more to the stability kindly cared for, and that in consequence there 
and power and resources of the nation, than are no strikes for wages, no mistaken zeal produc- 
gangs of negroes, raising millions (if you please) ing disorderly assemblies, in fact a halcyon state 
of bales of cotton. of society, in which every one knows his place, 

But then it is said, if negroes were so dog cheap is in his place and keeps his place and that as 
every poor man could have one or two or three. "Order is Heaven's first Law," the most orderly 
I have shewn that to reduce the price of negro society is the most heavenly, no matter how it 
property is to reduce the price of labor of all is accomplished. This false view of society and 
kinds. It follows that if the wealthy part of the the purposes for which it ought to exist, is not 
community or the nation itself are not going to confined to one section or one locality, there are 
make a present of the two or three negroes to the plenty of aristocratic philanthropists and plenty 
poor man, and there has been nothing of the of stipendiary toadies at the North, who are oc- 
kind proposed at all, no indeed 1 then the poor casionally found puffing forth such sentiments, 
man has got to get them the best he can. If no These men however are not found acting or vo- 
rich relation dies and gives them to him, and in ting with the Republican party except it is for 
that case, better for him the negroes were at a some sinister purpose. 

high price. If he has to buy, and there is no It is very evident that the nature and tendency 
other chance for him, he has to buy from his of a habit and feeling of contrasting the negro 
earnings or wages, he will be exactly in the po- of the plantation, favorably wfth the paid white 
sition of the man who arrived at Philadelphia man ; is to reduce the white laborer to the level 
from Dublin, who upon going to market, made of the negro, and such being the tendency of 
some invidious remarks upon the price of articles, such sentiments, they are eschewed by Republi- 
among others said ; that "he could buy that for cans, and despised where understood by the 
a penny a pound the morning he left Dublin." white working man. 

"Why didn't you stay in Dublin then ?" replied Having at some length shown something of the 
the market man. "Och Faith, thedivilof it was fallacy of the idea of cheap negroes, and having 
to git the penny." So it will be about cheap claimed under this head that the Republican par- 
negroes, the divil of it will be to get the penny ty holds the only really conservative doctrine of 
to buy them with, so low after a while would be any of the parties, let us examine the effect of 
the rate of wages, that the poor man will at last cheap negroes, upon the status of the nation, 
have never a chance of a nigger at all. Slavery in the existence of a nation is neither 

If there was ever anything] devised to make more nor less than a luxury. It is not a necessi- 
the "poor poorer and the rich richer," it would ty as often claimed by its advocates. Let ana- 
be jueUuch a measure as the one to introduce tion consist of all freemen, each pursuing his 



business, adding something to the general stock party, and really believe that this defeat will 
of improvement, in science, or art, or mechan- save their country from its extremest calamity, 
ical inventions to facilitate labor, exclusive of is equally true. Gentlemen and well meaning 
the necessity of procuring, if not already pos- men as we believe these, to be, we cannot help 
sossed of an independent individual sustenance, thinking that you neither understand the inten- 
and you have already a strong nation. If cli- tions or aims of Republicanism, nor of the men 
mate and soil, and extent of Territory and na- who so often raise a clamor, that they will dis- 
tural advantage and a free Government conduce solve the Union if they can't have their way 
to the developement of all these elements, then about it. 

as such a population increases, you have the How is it proposed to defeat the election of a 
strong nation, the strongs nation, the strongest Republican President ; by uniting all the difl'er- 
nation, and if good morals accompany all these ent elements opposed, contrary in views, senti- 
other constituencies, then you have soon the ments, in principles, in purposes, contrary in 
most powerful nation of the earth. Shall our everything that ought to unite good and true men 
nation be that, or shall she become effete and en- in one common purpose: excepting when threat - 
crvated by the luxury of slavery, is the great ened with a common and imminent danger, but 
question before the American people in this Pres- ah! that is it you say ; the great and threaten- 
fdential canvass. ing danger of the destruction of our country and 

Let slavery spread until negroes do all the of our interests. Gentlemen of this way of 
work, what then have you but a race of serviles thinkings will you please to point out who it is 
constituting the vast majority of the population, that threatens, is it not some of the very men 
and a race of masters constituting a small minor- with whom you propose to unite ? Will you al 
ity. Is it not easy to see that under such a state low us to point out how it is that you are to pre- 
of things when negroes are cheap and of little vent the election of the candidate of a party 
consequence, that the brute feelings are easier which proposes to carry the election by legal and 
let loose, that humanity gives way, that cruelty constitutional means, and to administer the 
begins its reign, that even avarice with its grasp- Government according to the Constitution and 
ing hand will give place to the arm of vengeance Laws. 

upon the slightest provocation. Under this state You can do this in two ways, one by getting 
of things, police regulations necessarily become popular or electoral votes enough to elect some 
more vigilant, suspicion is engendered, violence other man. You do not expect this, but you 
will often be resorted|to, alienation and ascerbi- propose the other way, that of so dividing and 
ty of feeling between master and slave in- uniting as to defeat the popular will and carry 
creases, unsuccessful insurections will give rise the election to the House of Representatives or 
to greater severity, these in turn create bad the Senate of the United States.' 
feeling and the force of slaves continually in- There is a provision made in the Constitution 
creasing both positively by importation and of the United States, that if the people fail to 
natural causes, and relatively by the decrease of elect a President and Vice President, that in 
the working class of whites, for the work being this case which was expected to be an extremo 
done by negroes, and a few wealthy whites ow- one, by a certain process a candidate should be 
ing the most of the land and negroes, the in- chosen by States, each State having one vote 
ducement is very strong to the poorer white in this choice. 

man to sell his cheap negroes and go where he There are laws made in this and other States 
can educate his children in cheap schools and be that if a man dies, leaving a family and proper- 
where there are those of his own class with whom ty, that a guardian or administrator may be ap- 
to associate and equal. How long, how many or pointed to take charge of his affairs. This law is 
few years we may ask will be required under made to meet an extreme case, deplorable 
such a state of things to produce a massacre enough when it does occur, after having used 
like that of St. Domingo, will need no prophet every means to prevent; not to bring about the 
to tell, nor any Abolitionist to help. It is that, case. 

the Republicans declare will be the natural se- The law to choose a ruler of the nation in a. 
quence of the spread of slavery sooner or later, contingency that might possibly occur, was not 

It is charged upon Republicans by as high made to expedite that contingency: it was in- 
authority as a U.S. Senator of Missouri, that they tended to be merely remedial in its character; 
would bring these insurrections and massacres but what are you 'about , you propose with de- 
about. Whoever utters such things, does it mis- liberate purpose to bring about a state of things 
takenly or falsely. The Republicans desire to like that which would render the appointment 
take no mans property away from him, be it of a guardian in the affairs of a private citizen ; 
slaves or anything else, but s they do desire to pre- you propose to do, what I for one cannot help 
vent by timely remedy, the terrible results regarding as an unworthy thing, a base thing — . 
which must follow the spread of slavery, and in But, then you say, only see the necessity of doing 
*his as in some other matters we do claim that this, peace and quiet to the country and the pre- 
the Republican party is the conservative party vention of the election of a Black Republican 
of the nation. President, and the saving of the Union. "Peace 

The consideration of the assertion that the Re- and quiet" — indeed. — It is sometimes sneered at 
publican partyis subsersive of the Union of these us, that "you Black Republicans have a great 
States has neccessarily entered into former por- deal of confidence in what you will do." We 
vonsofthis defence and will of necessity enter cannot help thinking that your confidence is 
i.l" irt into its closing portion therefore I will great and presumptuous ; and we do not sneer 
waive the question of subversion as a distinct as- when we say this, but will give you our good 
sertion and proceed to the proposal made of pre- reasons, 
venting the election of a Republican President. The election of President ha3 been carried to 

That there are many very good and sincere the House but twice in the history of our nation; 
men who are supporting the several parties as once at an early period when the contest lay 
opposed to the Republican party, cannot be between Mr. Burr and Mr. Jefferson, the other 
doubted, and that there are also very many when the contest lay chiefly between Mr. Adam* 
sincere and good men who are earnestly desi- and Mr. Jackson. At the former, though at an 
rous of uniting the3e various elementsjinto one early period, the parties mutually supporting 
zruvA eorabina'-ios to defeat the Republican the candidate? -vern at. sword'a oointu and c&mi 



very near coming into collision. At the latter at "peace and quiet" that Lincoln is President, 
election the parties though not ho near using and somebody else, that was to have been 
extreme means, were equallyviolent in language knocked into a cocked hat, politically, gives vou 
and temper, and at both these elections bribery, all a touch cf his polish as Secretary of State, 
intimidation and corruption were the order of What if your revered friend the Missouri Re- 
the diiy for weeks, and the eventual result in the publican newspaper should say this was just tiie 
first election was the germ of treason in Aaron thing and its principal take a trip to Europe to 
Burr; and in the last the fastening of the foul recommence the study of British institutions, 
and unjust charge of "corruption, bargain and for some time broken off, and all the saielites 
sale" upon one of the greatest of men and patri- say amen to it all ? Would you not be surprised 
ots, Henry Clay. Thus were these elections in that you had lost all your labor in throwing the 
those days conducted. election into the House? There are a great many 

The House is now a larger body, almost un- people that would not be at all surprised at 
controllable, many of the members carry con- such a result. 

cealed weapons, and are given to harsh language It would be far more manly to vote for Messrs. 
and violence. This House has twice been un- Lincoln and Hamlin and have them elected at 
able to elect its own speaker for weeks together, once, than help such a dastardly project of 
Is this then, what you men of "peace and cheating the people out of the election, and 
quiet" are aiming to do? to throw the election in- then be so badly cheated yourself after you 
to the House, to be scrambled for, to be pitched have had so much anxiety and trouble about it. 
and tossed about as a juggler would toss his balls, You listen to accusations against the Black Re- 
to be wrangled about, blood spilt over it, bribes publicans of all manner of bad things. You hear 
given and taken, every means of corruption it averred that they don't know what they are 
U3ed and magnified to its utmost extent to obtain about. According to their enemies they are 
success. both vicious and ignorant. As to vice, they 

Is this a prospect for a lover of his country to are no worse then the men who want to carry 
to contemplate, with the intention of aiding in the election into Congress, thus trying to make 
bringing about. Oh I hut then you say we shall a monarchy of our Democratic form of Govern- 
prevent the election nf a Black Republican Pres- ment. 

ident and save the Union. Are you so very As to ignorance, they are simple, but they 
sure of that, granting a thing that is not very will make out to get cured of that by the time 
likely to be, that Lincoln and Hamlin are not the election goes to the House, with such an ex- 
■elected by the people. Are you so very sure ample of wisdom, you who try to send the elec- 
Ihatyou will not have a Black Republican Pres- tion there, put before them, 
ident after all. That there is a sincere intent by the Bell and 

It it granted that Mr. Lincoln would have fif- Everett party to correct the abuses of Govern- 
teen States in his favor, it would require but two ment; is true and that there would be an ef- 
inore to elect him ; coming so near as that, would fort of that kind made by either or both of 
present a strong temptation to his adherents those gentlemen and their friends, if in power, 
1.0 use every means and exertion to compass his cannot be doubted. But the idea is this that 
election. Now there is not so strong an opposi- the Republican party is the only party that has 
tion in certain parts to his election as many per- the proper constituent elements of strength 
sons erroneously imagine. To get the one or two which are essentially necessary to restore the 
States necessary would require in certain quar- Government and that any pr.rty put into power 
ters but the change of the mind of two or three by the House will have become subject to crip- 
Congressmen, to give the majority of a State in pling and entangling alliances, which will en- 
favor of the State casting a unit vote, in one way tail to its principals the continuation of old 
or another. abuses, in some form or other. 

I do not mean to say that Congressmen are The Republicans totally and positively deny 
■ever bribed, everybody knows that, can -icver be, that the election of Messrs. Lincoln and Ham- 
bvt everybody knows that Congressmen some- lin to I lie highest offices in the gift of theAmer- 
times become convinced, like all other rational ican people, will or can or need to cause a sub- 
men, when just and suitable evidence is afforded version of these Shites or a destruction of the 
that they would be right in changing their views Union thereof. 

and votes. We know that it is threa- med by certain 111- 

It is possible that there may be Northern men dividuals and factions chiefly residing in what 
with Southern pringiples that can sec things in are called the "Gulf States," including some 
more lights than one" There have been instances States which do not border on the Gulf ot Mex- 
where a Democratic President in his intense ico, that in the event of the election of a Re- 
Southernzeal,allowedthe mails to be ritled,after- publican President and that party coming into 
wards for good reasons of his own or out of spite, power, that they (these States) will separate 
to defeat a Southern Democratic nominee, put from the present Confederacy, and set up a 
his name at the head of the Northern Abolition- Confederacy of their own, and it necessary sus- 
ists, and did by that and other means cause the tain their Confederacy by force ot arms. 
defeat of the Southern nominee. How would it Let us look into this matter a little in its or- 
be, if from Missouri, men should be found su- igin and bearings, for this Disunion as it now is 
sceptibleof these influences? What if the ad- called, is not a new thing at all; the hydra 
herents of Mr. Bell should see things in quite monster has often reared its head ot ma<Jy 
anafher light after a few days trial in the House? shapes, it has not always confined itselt to v-c 
There is one candidate of' great influence and locality, nor has its voce been always ol me 
personal popularity, who, a portion of his party sound, sometimes :-yrone as a lute, and then clis- 
are determined to kill off politically, (and will do cordant as the croak of a bullfrog(and just about 
it too.as among them and the old influences) this as fearful.) _^ 

candidate may, with his friends, by your and The first instance that we find after the l>e-^ 
kindred efforts driven to the wall, take it into deration of Independence by the colonies, 01 
their heads, that the best thin <? after all for the any man of mark attempting to betray his 
country is the election of Mr. Lincoln and there country was General Arnold, a man ot great 
are lots of folks in the "Gulf States" think that capieity but disappointed ambition, we all know 
way now. Supposing that after all your efforts the estimation in whieb his memory is held. 



Another instance is in the Hartford convention preferable, aa England bought and paid, for 
times ■when some of the New England Slates their cotton and would sell them cheap goods, 
did not like the war with England as it inter- and could not interfere with their peculiar laws. 
fered very seriously with their business and This gentlemen wasjan acquaintance and friend 
commerce; it does not appear thai in this move- of mine, and the sentiment of numbers pothers 
ment there was anj desireoral • of ' the larger slaveholders and cotton growers of 

but a mere pi ' cripple th gov< ■ . were similar. The body of 

soastoobliga [ do not believe think ths way. 

partial as it Was, iut it i s no* wonderful that men and thei imi- 

and suspicion. , ,| D ecome attached to an ins ion 

Aaron Burr got up a con/ . , rile in its nature; neither is 

armed force to inten- it I at wild and erroneous ideas of their 

tionof out of l andjposition, and of their neigl 3 

on, and with such i aid obtain in a commuuity, 

to create an empire nh which he id tached to one idea and one institution until 

rule. ia monomania, and preclud 

The making a South -v. ■ rn Em- and p s under the severest penalties even 

pireor Republic has been a | imatum, the most mild and respectful advances to a bet- 

with men ©f a wild .-standing. The notions about Northern 

of disappointed ambition for a long time. The oppression and the like, and the idea of a South- 
present agitation of th-. ; many local- them Republic began by men who calculate on 
ites is only the developed though i > ted an alliance with England to sustain them we re- 
germ of the leading idea of Aaron Burr. d as too erroneous and wild a character, to bo 

A far-greater difficulty stands in the way of the even plausible to any but men of chimerical 
adventurous, political and aspiring spirits", chief- vio ' v or of vastly sanguine temperament. Re- 
ly living in the South, at this day. The States publicans regard this matter of disunion as of a 
are stronger and more com- b. more nature so dangerous and impracticable for those 

numerous; than at that day. Railroads, Steam- attempting it, that they do not usually, where 
boats, public ami private improvements of all the V Art J is -Strong pay much more attention to 
kinds, tbe telegraph and nev . a, more the threats of disunion, than to a blast of wind, 

generally diffused information, render the pro- But i:l 0? much aa the Republican party is at- 
ject, of dismemberment of the Republic a much tacked with fierce denunciation and hitter mvec- 
more difficult und sre, as at once the cause and promoter, and its 

whilst on the oi her hand the absem *oess the consummation of disunion, and every 

ingarmy and the general indiffe i her question which ought to enter into this 

American people to bombasi bs, from canvass is forgotten or ignored by our opponenta 

in their great zeal to hold up to viewthe nigger 
and also the growth of wealth and refinement, and disunion, thiis forcing those questions almost 
wouldallseemfc shdisnaemb • alone into the discussion. We will not shrink 

byafewpoli: ^eh from a short examination of disunion audita pro- 

dismemberme is. j ■■- > ,;. 

be the less sure nor the- s B wift Republicans take this ground, that there is 

that wiU overtake tlem in the , ig in the circumstances or prospects of the 

names and memories of tho i country to cause these stale but ceaseless 

treason will go down to poster! !' of disunion upon anybody or airy party, 

areproach, to tho latest genera RS intended for political effect. 

The light of i hi idea of a South ] tn at there is a large and influen- 

or Empire has burned with more or I — • whose position entitles their 

cy, as circumstances, or a fiti -ion, or opinion to a certaiar degree of weight in. the pub- 

leaders has warranted. Sometimes it has gleam- lie balances, and whilst we grant all the respect 
ed out in a dull fitful way as nullification, then to Tbn opinion of men of the character and 
again the tire has burned more st dily und< ■ standing of the like of the one to whom I ad- 
the management of , yet when their belief however sincere vt 

it burns bright and lambent from the fire and may be, is likely to be very much influenced by 
eloquence of a Yancov. But whilst there nicy surrounding circumstances, and when we know 
be one deader more distinguh -.. that a grand chimerical leading idea has taken 

there are great numbers, whose light and idea is possession of the minds of many men ot their 
just this— that the South has been groaning un ' : surroundings, we may be excused tor 

der the oppression of theNorth, and that if the differing from them. Added to this that it is al- 
Southern States could be released from their de- so well known that a great part of the voting 
pendence on the North, and set up as a an inde- people of the same neighborhood are not o l the 
pendent government, with the Lim me mind with them, we have some justihca- 

and the slaves to work that soil, the South would tion in doubting the tenability of their position 
be such a country and people as tfie world never or the soundness of vheir arguments. _ 

saw, and as to the North and South there is in Let lls then examine this matter in a spirit ot 
the nature of the case an utter unfitn- I " lor and union, and enquire into the probabi- 

disparity between the two, and the , m.u and civil war and into their mi- 

ween the two, as now existing, ought to be dis- probability and impractabihty and then give 
solved the first, opportunity ' R orae reasons why every voter who wishes to 

The above is really a fair statement of the buildup our country and its union and forever 
case. I have heard, during a residence of some Bet at rest the nigger and disunion and question 
time wi Yazoo county, Mh ; I vote for Lincoln and Ilamlm. 

gentleman of wealth and infori >m any standpoint which I can see 

ing, not a politician at all, at his ov lities of the disseverance of this 

in a conversation wjth myself; utter sentiments Union at this time or any time within a lapse of 
as stated above, and furthermore add, that there years, are not great. 

was no tie of interest between the two sections ' After scanning the horizon of our country and 
but that an alliance with England far 30 fbi as it if possible fdr the mir.d to take in the 



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vast extent and resources of the immense domain Missouri will only acquiesce in what they Bay 
of our country, I see but very slight specks indi- and do, and that if through any clap-trap some 
eating to my view but the possibility of a probab- times about a tariff, sometimes about Northern 
ility. aggression, then about slavery, a state of thing? 

Be it prejudice, or a love of the Union, or a can be brought about to keep Missouri, and all 
wish for its preservation, or whatever it may bo, the other jjarts of the country from developing 
blindness or incapacity of judging, in this view its resources and increasing its power all will !.- 
lam sincere. Then I will hike the negative right. That is if M d other states will 

ardshow why the destruction of this union and p 0) weak and subservient, and 

civil war, is improbable and impracticable. In willbecontei distant province of the 

evolving this side of the case, it may be that great Southern Empire, then these visionary 
something may he shown favoring the other enth tfillremain in the Union to govern 

side. it — to protect it, to keep it from running to ex - 

That nations nourish and fade, rise and de- kernes, and to frighten it occasionally. 
cline, like individual life, no one will deny. And To dismember this Union under the gr 
that some nations had better be dissolved in of advantage, i of a 

their governmental and political capacity, every , n: 

onewilladmit. But that nations in th.ir tStatesinit, 

ful bloom, in the yet undeveloped elements of but wberi ; :i by the states which pro- 

their strength, in the rising glory of their day, claim esthatcom- 

or in the vigor of early manhood, decline or de- plain that a >d by their stronger 

cay is"anamolous that they come in times of sisters, will be still mora sefious. 
peace and prosperity to a sudden and disastrous . . . 

termination of their national existence is pre- To dismember this Union, requires that these 
posterous. There is nothing in the general na- S tat ," s . so C J 01U ? should be able to maintain their 
ture of the case that favors dissolution. But credit m the sight of and in the markets of the 
then it is said the particular question of niggers ™ rid > and - as against the States from which they 
will dissolve the Union. That is the only ques- have revolted— will they or can they doit? A 
tion that it is suppased by the most sanguine remarkable instance of how this would operate 
dissolvers will have any effect. It has been occurred in iny own sight. Being in a brokers 
shown that, there has ever since the foun- ofhee m Philadelphia, a lady entered to get some 
dation of the government, been a sort of roving South Carolina money changed, it was m 18b2, 
floating idea of a Southern Empire, whether the broker declined taking the money on ac- 
there isto be one monarch in this empire or there count of the nullification In that State. This 
are to be fifteen or twenty has not been settled, would be precisely the case^th seceding states, 
and never will be. This idea on various pretexts their credit would be gone. A great to do is mad,, 
has been muttered about and twice attempted about the danger ol civil war arising foo*. in- 
to be carried out,on pretexts other than slavery, secession. I cannot see that very much of a 
This thing of inroads upon slavery and opprei civil w-ar will be the necessdy even should a few 
sion of the South is only a pretext, for the* same States Recede. Who is it that s to fighf 7 A 
thing, under another form/ longtimeago thewh( Lt is ealledthatis 

°' , , , , , .. . ., ., all the slavehoiding States, was to break oft, 

The truth is that the whole nation in all its lockatoc i c an ,i barrel about something or other, 
parts and States has been growing in the vigor of Naw it is ,, ix «G„lf States." Supposing the six 
its youth in an unprecendated manner, but one .. Gulf states" do break off, what are ihey to do 
part where free paid labor, and the untrammel- ahyut it ? Thcy jirst ^eclifte to send representa- 
ed expression of thought, developed the pro- tive3 tQ Congress, withdraw their Senators to 
ducts of the earth, machinery, the school house, mako gass i n g speeches at home, get the whole 
and all the adjuncts of the plainer social life, peop i e there°excited, the countrv on fire, and 
and these in turn drew to them the bone and si- who is burnt by it; nobodv, but its originators. 
new of the population, the commerce and the Congress goes on and talks better and less, and 
means of it in capital, buildings, shipping &c, does its DUS i nesa cmicker without these agitators 
to afar greater extent than where either of the f "eternal wrongs" and a few "rights", 
constituent elements did not exist or existed to a 

more limited extent, and this will always follow, Next they will get up volunteers not to "fight 
that all other things being equal, that a com- but to have white handkerchiefs waved at them 
munity in which there is entire libertyof thought in token of their uuparalled bravery, m toatmg 
and paid labor, will always excel in products, about an old musket or shot gun, or good rifle in 
manufactures, cimmerce and population, a com- the hot sun, they will no doubt be well treated, 
munity in whie those first constituencies do not for a while, with smiling looks and good and 
exist to so great an extent. bad liquor, until at last these "pups of war" will 

This is about all that has constituted what is {ftgfg-K ^gSAfMSK 

called Northern aggression Much as I dislike J^SSf^ they w "ere in . This is no 

those terms, Northern and Southern m a pohti- ^^ ct the like of this occurred fin our 
crior offensive sense I am obliged to use them ^Section in a war got up under similar 
they being in general use. The question has ° , h \~"-" a l wv^u ™n^ J nwn t fl 

little to do with North and South. It is made a f" et ^f\Z ^7Xt^ch\ crfwd? nobodv 
question of property, and as such ought to be £™£^^ 

treated, the same as the bank question was mev wu : £*** ai , , .. nl , T u pv will ' 
treated in the days of Jackson Tlie nation hav- ^££&%^^ 1 £££& "down The 
mg grown in inherent strength and size, and the ", ,, "1, . \ „„ a o11 k q i;v»it» t-n c^ rtwinV 
J£ r Southern and Soufh W-t part of it b.. M V -^ *>™ •»* f * »g£ $**^ 

fold power under the guise of protection to ne- states. 

rro property. The real sense of the matter is An alliance with England will not be so easily 
this,~and the sooner it is understood the better, accomplished, for such an alliance will afford 
that the projectors of a Southern empire will be France the opportunity and pretext of attaching 
content to remain in the Union; if State?., like England, which is almost a necessity to France. 



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These enthu a ; "Gulf states" talk and ing to send fifteen thousand armed men if need- 

seem to think thai thev are going to have all ed and any quantity of money and material. 
the fun thatwhilst they are doing all, the old (such was the understanding expressed by lead - 
confederacy in which, if even all the slave- ers here) sent about 350 men, ill appointed and 
hould separate will remain the principal half equipped, many of whom very soon 
whiti men the shipping, began the performances portrayed in another 
in fact the main rasourees and power of the part of this defence. Until this crowd came, the 
country is going t< ing. Can't she I >o roads were safe and property unmolested, after 

,.-, ■> Besid U the vere unsafe and no man's 

could be kept, and there were 
, ■■ . . he no abolitionists or known free state men within 

niles of this. The end of all this "Gulf State' 




has been committe . 

™ « i i- i -.1 i +i »«»(!M,«fHioPim 'the people of those States upon the 

The2ndar ing men and money, that many 

sWution d. ians S had spent nearly their all, 

of the states, or mdiv duals Lnere Qr w J the Ume i oeffectthQ 

bidden thin whilst the free State men were discour- 

very dangerous ^ d leavi to make Kansas a glave state . 

war, invade other states, or ,, ,, v adventurers or 

&c.,as some have already found .to the loss of ^ fitful ^ riodgj „ in lone p i ac es,but the agents 

their lives. _ _ „.. nn i. ann *„ ennn ( df States" were men of high position, 

The proposed secession s , con- f di afld - m&uenee hl their own neigh _ 

fined to the "Gull states but is talked of as il ^^ B q{ veracit a ^ laaa of men s su . 

the whole people were ripe ^ sent b the free 

?.«*■ The , L en of Kansas to lecture for them. 
tion and revolution are so otte l made tne tneme 

by the enthusiastic gents among | dd by those gentlemen in the Gulf 

connected with ' '■ ■ tat if Kansas should be 

ile at large in those Sta • ruri, Arkansas and Kentucky would 

lieve that there is some ne y connection toward freedom also, and this was ad- 

between negro property an ion. This mitted, but notwithstanding the immense inte- 

belief is not yet so firmly sea at stake, to the "Gulf States," few men other 

into treason or hemp ropes. .' are a than those above were sent, and though it has 

people who are open to conviction upo i < been asserted that there were twenty thousand 

information beittgi fade letot icm. dollars sent at one time, there is no good reason 

The gn ; that there was a fourth of that 

lican party will prevent th : people " 

from carrying their property j of it all was, that good and true 

ries. there is 8 I □ on of Southern rights m : tgoodfaftb 

preventing I rtywhicha tocarryoui fchep •fixed upon in the 

non-slaveholder i idder Territory, were left to struggle alone with the 

c£n take all the property he likes which a non- numbers precipitated upon them, numbers, 

slaveholder will t: i ! ■ ' ories. Be :t feelings had been roused in conse- 

cause the Republican party wishes to save the . of the measures taken against them, 

Territories of the "Ohii tothe European through thi id threats made by these 

race, to white men and their uad to fa- Gul Sta . 

vor the sending < ro out of the couutry ; , ,,. _ ,, . 

not bringing th m in, . \ v ' ho knows anything of the secret 

Hon* of ma hat period (secret now no longer), 

ist, that party musl be aceused of eat; \ the above is ti-ue,m its own place and 

destruction . den. ;1 'V hc b 1 story of those tunes. I do 

Threat, are made by the fire-eating portion of not cite the affairs oi those times to stir up feel- 

our South, ,:, that they will not le . *£™ *f r ? han ^ th f 1S to be P laced 

North haveany m in caseo 8ta * e hl ™ ter > threats or R l™' P t f- 

That may b re willing The K ™ sa ^ struggle was a mere flash m the 

to admit that th ' Southern Empire struggle, the utt«-ance 

eateravery largely into the bush, ■ ' a Southern Republic or Empire was 

but* sment highly approv- 

don't eat it, and never hear ; ' l d ? d the ? a * d 

it , only thai do now that the i I ryofKan- 

tnreatened ' ' " ' '. '. a " d 

the negro ftsr ion oi its boi) and its 

These gents who bin-* ■ 

smashing, are not her * 

th^ir threal s or promises, as we know 1 ' the 

■ nisa- 

the :■ i ranee, is the superior 

f th ' ; he straggle 

mid.- L manage '• true that 



" or treaoh- 

the time to here i^ 

thatwhi performed their] , and two administrations, 

: r. Buchanan, over which 



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they had control to blame for the failure to make take can- of herself and assist her neighbors in 

Kansas a slave State. ping the peace. 

m , . , , , , ■ a * -c <-\ , > m- We are fully aware that fcber* was an attempt 

The inference to be drawn is, that if the trull _,_j q i,*,,;„f , im- ■/ i * 

e . ■■. , . , ,i i i- i i n , i -. made last, winter to send Missouri troops down 

States negleeted a matter believed by themselves f i,„„, ,, f „„j „ ff +*,„ „„v 1: ; V j i l ru i 

, ° ., , , • , ... ,.'. . , , tnere to feed on uie public crib and do a little 

m I>a an vital n.ni-1 imnnrtfl.Tit.tn their interests. . . . . . ' . . . «•"•"* *«v» c«. i»uu.« 



to be so vital and important to their interests, „i_„j_„:„„ „ f i.„„i , . ■, . . .7 . , , 

. • ' i-i ii plundering oi the people besides, but it is hard- 

imparatively so small f\ i;i .«u.«.if„ t ,, * *■ , ,, , ', . . 

, ,. 1 °j * i 41 , lv likelytnat such a nroicctwill take placeacram. 

an amount ot means and men: how are they to f f iln ,:,;i, r , i d v-- • • • •? i 

. .,,•,- 11 the raid oi John Brown on Virginiais cited, 



and a matter requ 



h.i • , ,' -[ • i_ u ii ii iuv nun i'i ..i \_r±± it ijiwiiji. < ,.i v n 1:1111,1 1:1 i.LLtl. 

ieve the protect ot dismei oi the ,„ ,.„,,i, r ( i„,.,,„ , + » e ° ,. , ,, , 

.o 1 n W , j •„ we rep , ivas. a sort oi fanatic and taat 

Government? The in- all at ££ ith otherfl 

dulged m by the , ;eu he had witli 

though absurd eno ij:!1 ., llv knew wl , w&3 ; d . 

Members of Con, lot f invassion 

threatening langu Kansas city we are 

CJoAgress^roceedingto i . M ^ . 

uencjes about, raising tl „ we j 
8i Washington and running red M pi, 

shares over the ruins. lake his head I 

Thus with brasen face and * want to hear him ofcce more, when his 

proclaiming their own shame and that of their hei , his heart is full and his stomach 

party ,as Mr. Craig, the Member for the Congres-. is empty. In fact when he comes again, as he 

sional District North of us did tin i 1 the first change be could get, he 
in our Court House, telling us that the Gulf will come in full trim and in prime order. Last 

States would send 60,0t)i) u... i to Wash in > was here, his head aehfcd, and no wonder, 

prevent the inauguration of Mr. Lincoln. Does J ■ We possess 

he believe this that he asserts ? not he, and he'd for such j the mostj' lively feelings of 

think anybody else a fool thai we hope they may live long, and grow a 

This kind - of assertions were made just as strong g"eat deel better and wiser; for in a general 

if a Republican 3p I both. We hope he may live to 

Union goes on, U. S. stocks are jus ; district for a Iphg time. We think 

ever— and nobody minds or cares. rovided lie don't come down to Kansas 

bout Kansas and howl 

But there is one effect of all this ;iv. That would make 
together with the violence attempted in certain anyman'sht • id break his wind besides, 
localities, that I may notice, and that is the ana tat a broken winded 
clubs forming all over the counl L"or a broken winded 
Awakes." Enquiries have'b 1 are nowhere these times, 
they are for, &c. 1 ~ ,•,.:.-.• oi' reasons could 
than the na1 as be given i I • lityandini- 
those echoed by Mr. Crai of the States, 
Gulf .si ■■ ' o they would but 
than/*/-'' itlve iiil of the frying 
olence that has been employed at blustering brag-" 
meetings and protective if n this,and ;fcie cool headed men 
ment,against i gjjth know it. The 
own oil',, brce will be need* main objec by thes to acquire and se- 
ed, that |Ge with — "60,000 men will r , ;1 over the whole country. 
march up the hill and th . tin" I will close :e of Republicanism, re- 
— liquor, go home to bed, ting some < s before the coun- 
the morning think better <,: 

will by that time thin 1 : i un nf iU tariff, protection to 
district a While longer, than to lay ' ! 

commanding a lot of rowdy boys thai wontstay . -,vi„;„^ 
commanded? Thai is if he dont mi Republican votes have been invariably m fa- 
fool of himself by I IT^iS™ 
and running them soli, ,sun ^T 
before another election. , ! l «*£* 
mav want a man who b "7 t0 the P res I >ent y ot the 
himself with his own I '■''• 

tion made by Mr. ■ to be met, . ids to white famihes. 

and that is, that in case the Gulf States kicl Jhis m I to be the. measure of the Re- 
up a row the 

border would to sul ,., uncnt to its 

property a theyv , eibUtQ bee f. 
trouble. Now we 
that had thei 

Kansa ,./•„, -,t 

■ cxecuUon of 

trationd 

of it or bad Kansas been * iave or 

State tocon 

been aone of it. , , ipprop of the 

two thousand and mo 

who would - nf t; . n , . 

to take, 

posed that the invasion will take place under a 

BlackE t- It will be said don all the parties agreeupon 

hash very tfuicl ' m la '• ™ what 

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self an inalienable home by the other parties, tatod and predetermined, and theft nnul that 
No, they will tell you about property to put assent by legislative enactment. ; unhermore 
upon ami money to 'buy these lanSs. What is than this ,, the Republican party so far as Cons fo- 
argued about protection to American industry, tutional law admits,- -will labor for the curtail - 

The dominant power of the intended Southern ng of appointments to Territorial and other 
empire wants no protection, because they prefer offices by the President. 

to sell cotton to England to enrich her and keep l n applying this principle, we as Republican;* 
back the Northern'" States, ami such States as believe that the portion of the family of man, 
Missouri. All the other parties desiring the eoun- known as the European race, and their descena- 
tenance and votes of the Southern empire, keep ant3 01 - representatives in this country, citizens 
silent in this canvass. thereof, have the right, under just and equitable 

It is a fact that in consequence of the domina- laws, to the choice of the public lands for them- 
tion of the cotton interest in ru'ingthe govern- selves and families, to the exclusion n needed, 
meut and a majority of the United States Senate, of all other races. 

that millions of dollars in gold and silver are As Republicans, we are not averse to entir- 
sent over to England, and besides a great portion prises of charity or benevolence, we believe that 
of the cotton crop, to pay debts and pay for the christianizing and elevating of African ne- 
goods which .under a judicious man; 1 gament groes had much better be done in Africa without 
ought never, and would not, be imported. their being brought here, and we would recom- 

Thiswith Republicans is one of the leading mend all persons possessed of that peculiar kind 
questions of this canvass, and the Republican of religious sympathy and charity to go there 
party will of necessity do all that can be done to upon that errand and stay there among tneAfri- 
stop this exportation of specie and restore "a just cans 

and proper equilibrium to the currency and V There are now before the public tour several 
sinessefthe eountrV. That the Bell psrty would parties, three of which, with a little variation, 
do this if if it could", we do not deny, but we do positively assert, that if the Republican party 
say that if any other partv than the Republi- is successful, the Union will be dissolved. Iwo 
can comes into power, it will be under auspices of these parties proclaim that one of the others 
that will rule it and prevent the accomplish- is a disunion partypcr.se. One of these three, 
mentof anything than that which the eotten flaunts upon its banner "popular sovereignty;^ 
interest shall require or admit. And this dorni- we too are believers m -popular sovereignty 
nation of one interest over all others is what we We believe in the "popular sovereignty' that 
object to. sa y s : we are men an< * llave ri g" ts > anfl ? llr nel S n - 

What of a renovation of the government? The bors are men and they too have their rights, and 
governmentof our country hasbecome corrupt by those rights must he settled and defined by cxaci, 
creating and giving offices to reward partizan- and suitable law. 

ship. There is but little said about this by any Another of these parties refers to general affir- 
of the political parties but the Republican, nor mations and the respectability of its candidate* 
can any great change be effected by mere change for a definition of its principles. The other of 
of the men of the other parties, because the three has this very excellent quality that its 
they will be but partizans of the same power candidate comes out plain spoken'and explicit, 
behind the throne now ruling, to wit : the pow- aU( i tells that slavery must of right and shall be 
er whicl^ threatens to dissolve the Union, if it by l aw extended ad infinitum, whether to the 
can't rule", prejudice of the white or not, we are left to our 

It is an imperative dutv to discourage the own inferences, 
seeking of office for office sake, and as there- Two of these parties agree in denouncing the 
ward of pa? tizanship. Republicans as producing disunion, without any 

Though no party can hope to effect a radical shadow of proof. It has been the endeavor to 
cure, yet the tendency and aims of our party show in this defence that they are not so, but 
will be that way. that this cry of disunion is in its nature and m- 

The Republican party having the confidence tent a mere ghost and bugaboo story to frighten 
of the great body of the people and voters in that weak and tender souled people from voting for 
part of our country where a fugitive slave law is and sustaining a party that will put down dis- 
supposed to be applicable, will be enabled firmly union and dismiss the negro question from the 
though mildly to put in operation that law, un- national legislation forever. 

til it can be so amended as to give satisfaction, Is it not clear that until a party comes info 
to both parts of the confederacy. power that is not under the influence or domi- 

The suppression and extinction of the African nation of the leaders of the Southern Empire, 
slave trade is a measure at once humane, and there will be no "peace or quiet" upon this 
politic, both to slaveholder and nonslaveholders, question, that it will always have' a prcdomin- 
' and is a matter of necessitv, as it is notorious ance in the national eonncils. Is it not a fact 
that ships arefitted out on false pretenses in New that every successive administration for years 
\>»-k, and cargoes of negroes from Africa are and years has quailed under the domination of 
landed at various points, and should any of the this "Gulf State" power under various names 
other parties come into power the African slave and guises. Is it not a fact, that the admmistra- 
trade if not legalized, will be carried on with im- tion of Mr. Fillmore was promised "peace and 
punity, the country overrun with wild and sav- quiet" upon the passage of the compromise 
age negroes to cheapen negro property, and de- measures; and shall you who advocate the elec- 
prive the poor white man of his wages, tion of Mr. Bell, expect that claims will not be 

Is it a sin to secure the unappropriated Terri- made upon an administration so elected, such as 
lories of tiie United States to the white man '.' Is never have been before. 

it a crime to prevent those Territories being Is it not a fact that the crusade made, by a 
occupied by negroes, I hen the Republicans are portion of the Democratic party against Mr. 
criminal. For this thing, in or out of power they Douglas/is nnt so much that he is according to 



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them abreakerof treaties, but thai to save- him- any one in his rights, but to vindicate ourselves 
self, be broke a treaty made with the "Gulf and party from the i'.-ul and unjust allegatious 
'.power," thai he would not sacrifice himself up- made against us. 

on an altar of their erection. What can yon We also believe that this election has a very 
-expert, of "popular sovereignty;'' when it suited great deal to do with the prosperity of the mate- 
the purposes of the Southern Empire to keep up rial interests of the country; that upon the se- 
a frontier war in Kansas, it was just the thing, so lection made of the men representing various 
soon as it turned out to be the contrary it was principles and measures, depends to a great ex- 
vile and abhorent thus, i ar "pop- tent not so much the quality or quantity of the 
ular sovereignty," havi tied policy or products of the earth, but of their value, and 
ilxed law beforehand, ii liable to all sorts of the value of labor and all commodities nee< 
constructions. to the well being and comfort of a rising people. 

Did not your versionof "popular sovereignty" And we will say that tb 
as tried in Kansas prove but to be the gather- Republicans who are slaveholders, and • 
ing together of the* fierce and factious of all sec- to be such for a longtime to, I we do 

tionsto make war upon each other. not regard protection to that property alone as 

The greater put of Mr. Douglas' popularity {he one paramount duty of our Government^ 
with th! masses N - in his b ^ «»* he ' ndu f7 ' ' ' ilRl be 

supposed defence a a sove- !*•»«*«* aad »™*»med m all us various forms, 

eigntyof the people and a qui ,ifr e S eifism, and We believe that thejolicy ol the Eepubhcan 
his persecution therefore by the aristocratic party Wdl develope tffe resourt Stateof 

J » .. ,„, ,_j._ - Misso tnon than that of the policy of anv 

portion of bis own party. o ,,, bat by the policy of this party «b 

The 'popular sovereignty -t Wt. Douglas does maB wiU be injured any where, but that" the 
not contemplate tne election of Governors and mosttmeii will .1 addition to 

Judges in thfe ^erritoriesby the people, J^eyare (hjS ^ c ] ahll . that were the policy of the other 

working 

slation, 

itions, is with and 

laws, yet a Governor appointed by the central in on; . li: , r; , , and that the sentiment of the 
power can veto them and judges can without great American people where -well informed, is 
any difficulty determine the laws so passed un- v/li ; ; ug 

constitutional. This kind of "popular sovereign- Knowing andfeeling that our cause is ju*4 and 
ty" then, would lead the people of the Territo- that the sentiments we advocate are only to be 
ries in their legislation into contact with the ap- ]al0Wn fn be appreciated and valued, we* invite 
pointing and judicial power, and launch the ta0 se who fear to give ff 6nee ; n their social or 
Territorial Legislation upon a sea of uncertain- business relations, who believe as we, of whom 
ty, as to what, is property and how it shall be we believe there are many, to unite with us. 
protected. The Republicans differ from Mr. ." , ■ , .,„,.-.„ 

Douglas on this point, in this, that whilst his Thereto* many men 01 alent and utfematrtn 

plan launches tli people of the Territories into ^ «* «> h «™f d ™Jj 2%?% ^convinced 
t 'u , ■ +„,«„i4,,^„ I , i n „;.iA<m„ surroundings, that thougn they be convinced 

a seaof wild uncertain tumultuous 1, ;riatu>n, of ^ ^J^y ^ a refo f m in 4e Government, 




„ could a through organization be effected and a 
growing m all the elements which confute a fau yote fee J^ * uj . ^ g & ra of a 

great and noble State or Nation. . u h . Emitted , m of those who 

Is it not a fact that the party headed by Mr I . ' ■ { M 

Breckinridge is branded by more than half of | has the right to vote, and c*n- 

»t«^^^" d »^ onlBta »^^™"; not vote as he pleases, and is convinced that a 
tent, We as ^P* b &<^,^«« ^* *™ * reform is needed, and that this reform.can only 
the men composing any of the parties are intent luhed b 80 me powerfi 1 1 1 Lve 

upon disunion The men so ttonitao* as SSE&i, like the Republican, who though 
well as anybody of any party, that a, 3 non is | > individual members of a par- 

too dangerous and impracticable for a trial. ^ ^^ from votiug with tllis party , not 

Fellow-citizens of the American Republie, and " n j^ea or- dislikes but on motives of social or 
the State of Missouri, we invite you to vote with business relations. Permit us as members of 
the Republican party, as in that party alone is the Republican party who see no reason to in- 
that '-peace and quiet" which is essential to the cur nee dless risk or to sacrifice business, position 
prosperity of our beloved country. This ques- or rc i a t; ou f rai y kind to a party in this con- 
tion mad* by our opponents so paramount above test, to sav, these ia beyond and above the 
all others, has been by unwise and selfish coun- ao iemn duty to vote as your conviction 
sels, forced upon the country. We are men of wne re you injure i ig, and that he 

former parties, Democrats and Whigs andAmcr- wn0 shrinks from a plain, mild and equitable 
ioans, whom a common sense of justice and a ex ,-, reiS : on f his sentiments, in particular by 
desire, not of partisan warfare nor of party sue- voti ., , and 

cess, but of promoting tbe prosperity of our no bi e r 

whole country, and the well being of every man , d in 

i a it»b^ driven us to adopting a party organiza ; (ter8 

tion suited to the times,— peaceable end law abi- 
ding. If we are asked b, 
and write bo plainly ma h 
that the Constitution of the Wilted I 1 

lom of speech ,nd the press . and in claiming Ee; .are found occupying pgnfflt 

and using this right we do not wish to disturb posit;..,.- m business of all kmd,s,;n the improve^ 



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ments of the city, in the I .V.vrehe?, in social po- Let it be remembered that a Bote for 
sition, in law and medicine,and by far the larger either of the three other parties is ;1 direct 
portion of the skilled meeMnical labor is per- ., tein favor (lf the SU pp re ssion of free- 
formed by men of Republican sentiment; and , , - , 3 F r • , ., 

mud of the respect of the *P ee / h and sentiment, and against the spir- 
mity in and out of the city, as men of it of public improvement, .hat either of 
other parties. Iti as elsewhere, that the other parties joining into power will be 

i political belief does not fix his status at taken charge of by the* men, who have al- 
all. And even the majority of th Douglas par- ^ayg browbeaten and domineered over in 
ty knowing that ther li . in one way or another the different administra- 

te half wa era that . ^ ya n who a „ e R ;,_ 

gentleman popular with the ma-- . .■■> : 'I oe- , , ,v . 

enpv a position ii mi 3 v. er a\ v : : ! ;lild P^bc improvements. 

to that of the Republicans. Can you give your veto to throw again 

The fact is, that a great part of the cla- tb ; administration into the hands of these 
mor raised about Black Republicanism is **«*. g>*» ■ *° " [ er what party other 
not' at all by respec 1 ins inside or than ti: .*;, Republican comes into power, 

-. The cry is made about "taking our the . ie will be the same threatening atuiblus- 
•tyinto the Territories/' very generally te "ng> ilu , ifc , IS a mafcfceT of . indifference 
by men, that if niggers were nine dollars which of the three parties carries Missouri. 
a dozen wouldn't have a nigger baby to Yv'e invite you, who have been by misre- 
take into the Territories'. And it is usually presentation led to believe we were de- 
those, who have hardly been here long structive in oar policy, to reconsider this 
enough to get a legal vote, that are so pa- matter. We invite men who are of the va- 
tronizing as to imagine that without their T [ ous parties to unite with us in achieving 
permission, American citizens, who set foot by a direct course all that is good in any 
in Missouri a score and more of years ago, or a ll of the parties. 

must not speak or write or vote their sen- y ote wM| ug tu e]ect m unprefc ending 
t.ments. Poor fellows, what a pity it is and modest who haye neyer ' ht £ 
that the reality don t come up to the imagi- tiu . ust themselves f orward] who aa * e nofc 
nation of these patronizing gents. pan dered to this sentiment or that in craving 

What shall Ave do with them or without l us t of office, but have pursued an even 
them? Pity it is that they hadn't the straightforward course, who have proved 
title deeds of the several States from which their inherent ability to sustain the high 
they come, and of which they imagine offices designed to b'e conferred upon them 
themselves to be the owners, along with by energetically persevering until they have 
them, obtained a name and fame among men, who 

These gentry, being of a very imaginative have combined in their character the traits 
turn, we humbly suggest that they turn of Clay and Jackson, those great prototypes 
poet, and would beg leave respectfully to of American character, 
submit a line or two for their considers We byite tQ voU} for ^ ^ 

tion as suiting their case: ag be ing attached to no clique, pledged by 

"Oh dear me ! Oh ! dear me, let me sing, let no promises but of whom it is expected on- 
me sing," ly that they shall administer the Govern- 

"If I only could, I would bo a kin?, I would be ment in its executive department in right- 
akin^." eousness and justice to all parties, all inte- 
rests and all sections. 

Shall any man, possessed of the attributes c , , , ,., , 

and capacity of a man be deterred in No- Sucn men and such can <fcdates are 
vember from voting his sentiments, or cast ABRAHAM LINCOLN of Illinois 

his vote so that it will have no effect in show- _ , 

ing that there is a steadily increasing spirit 
of enquiry in our State. HANNIBAL HAMLIN of Maine. 






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